**Our Purpose** _Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential._ **Title and Summary** Manager, Software Engineering Overview The Decision Management Program delivers intelligent decision based products through streaming analytics with the ability to govern these decisions and manage their outcomes with business agility. This program leverages business rules & AI engines, a streaming big data cluster, an in memory data grids, APIs, & UIs to deliver real time decisions at global scale. The Decision Management team is looking for a Manager, Software Engineering to execute on our technical test strategy. The ideal candidate is passionate about software development and testing, highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and possesses an ability to drive test strategy and improve quality across multiple product teams. Role In this position, you will: • Play a crucial part in a technical test lead role to help drive Quality and to build and implement test approaches, automation improvements and monitoring earlier in the development cycle. • Collaborate closely with our development teams to enhance our existing software development processes. • Partner with developers to improve and automate test and release processes. • Collaborate with development partners to make Quality an integral part of the development process. • Manage your own time while collaborating with teammates to accomplish project goals • Lead and manage the team including performance review and technical guidance • Create documentation such as high level design and detailed design. • Expect to spend 40% of the time on people management and remaining 60% on doing technical design, mentoring the team and be hands-on. All About You • Essential knowledge, skills, and experience o Strong leadership skills. o Experience working with high performance applications. o Good problem diagnostic and creative problem solving skills. o Strong organizational skills; able to manage multiple tasks within the constraints and timelines determined by business needs. o Advanced knowledge and skills in test fundamentals and methodologies, ideally ISTQB or ASTQB qualified. o Experience mentoring a quality engineering team. o Programming skills with experience in; Java, Selenium WebDriver, RESTful services, JSON and XML. o Knowledge of unit test frameworks such as Junit o Knowledge of testing frameworks such as TestNG and Spock o Experience working in Agile methodology. o Exposure/ Knowledge in cloud based applications. o In Memory Grids (Pivotal Gemfire) **Corporate Security Responsibility** All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must: + Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices; + Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed; + Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and + Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.